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Item Information   Holdings     Summary     More Content       More by this author     Thompson, Cheryl, 1977- author.     Subjects     African Americans in popular culture.     African Americans in mass media.     African Americans -- Social conditions.     Stereotypes (Social psychology) -- United States.     Browse Catalog     by author:      Thompson, Cheryl, 1977- author.       by title:      Uncle : race, nostal...         MARC Display

Uncle : race, nostalgia, and the politics of loyalty / by Cheryl Thompson. by Thompson, Cheryl, 1977- author. Toronto : Coach House Books, [2021] Subjects African Americans in popular culture.   African Americans in mass media.   African Americans -- Social conditions.   Stereotypes (Social psychology) -- United States. ISBN:  9781552454107 (paperback) : 155245410X (paperback) Description:  271 pages ; 22 cm Edition:  First edition. Requests:  0 Summary:  "Jackie Robinson, President Barack Obama, Supreme Court Justice Clarence Thomas, O. J. Simpson, and Christopher Darden have all been accused of being an Uncle Tom during their careers. How, why, and with what consequences for our society did Uncle Tom morph first into a servile old man and then into a racial epithet hurled at African American men deemed, by other Black people, to have betrayed their race? Uncle Tom, the eponymous figure in Harriet Beecher Stowe's sentimental anti-slavery novel, Uncle Tom's Cabin, was a loyal Christian who died a martyr's death. But soon after the best-selling novel appeared, theatre troupes across North America and Europe transformed Stowe's story into minstrel shows featuring white men in blackface. In Uncle, Cheryl Thompson traces Tom's journey from literary character to racial trope. She exposes the relentless reworking of Uncle Tom into a nostalgic, racial metaphor with the power to shape how we see Black men, a distortion visible in everything from Uncle Ben and Rastus the Cream of Wheat chef to the first interracial dance partners in Hollywood, Shirley Temple and Bill 'Bojangles' Robinson. In a post-truth North America, where nostalgia is used as a political tool to rewrite history, Uncle makes the case for why understanding the production of racial stereotypes matters more than ever before."--   Copy/Holding information Location Collection Call No. Status   Hawaii State Library Social Science & Philosophy 305.89609 Th Checked In Add Copy to MyList

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